Wifi under Ubuntu Feisty.

I downloaded Feisty alpha 2 to try on the second partition of the w*rk laptop. (My next feat will be to get the Windows installations of Outlook 2003 and Cisco VPN working under Wine.) The wifi cards didn't work, but doing a bug hunt found this workaround. Do this whenever you plug a card in:

sudo ifconfig [interface] down
sudo iwconfig [interface] essid [essid] key [key]
sudo ifconfig [interface] up
sudo dhclient3 [interface]

(We use WEP because we don't really care. Your mileage may vary.)

I'm now going around various bugs linking to the bug in question (78037) so that the various driver maintainers can see what's up.

The rest of Feisty is luvverly. If you don't mind the above hassle every damn time you start up or put a card in, it's worth a play just for new versions of stuff. The w*rk Dell (Latitude D600, P-M 1.6GHz, 512MB) is SO MUCH FASTER than my own laptop. Pity it's also twice the weight.